LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...

All hands to the pumps On the night of 22 June 1988 the fishing vessel Marigold tan on to rocks at Polkirt beach, 500 yards from Mevagissey Harbour and was badly holed. An overnight operation by a local boatbuilder, the coastguards and fire...

Right: The St Peter Port Severn class lifeboat Spirit of Guernsey on exercise with Portland helicopter. - View image in PDF

By Tony Rive, St Sampson's, Guernsey.. - View image in PDF

THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service during the past year to the Blyth Coast Life-Saving Company. As a result of their efforts nine members of the crew of the s...

SEPTEMBER 3RD. - MARGATE, KENT.

At 10.15 A.M. the coastguard reported that a man had dropped by parachute into the sea seven miles N.E. of Reculver. The sea was smooth, with a light N.W. wind. The motor life-boat J. B....

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an angler, while fishing from the beach at Rossall Point, had seen a light being flashed from an open motor...

The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 29th January the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that the steamer Edmond Hugo Stinnes, of Hamburg, had sent out a wireless message that she was in distress, with a broken...

Although we are well into the project, there will inevitably be many changes to the boat before it enters service (many of which we are planning already), so don't be surprised if the FSB2 delivered to station m 2005 looks a little...